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Ephemeris of Wednesday 5 June, 2024

The sun and moon on 06/05/2024 in Greece

(All times given here are in Athens local time)

Sunrise: 6:01 AM
Sunset: 8:46 PM
The sun will be at its zenith at 1:23 PM
Sunshine duration: 14 hours and 44 minutes (1 minute compared to yesterday)

Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:01 AM and set at 8:46 PM

Right now the time in Greece is 1:00 AM.
Greece's time difference from the Greenwich meridian: 3 hours(*)
Greece's time difference from Paris: 1 hour
(*) taking into account summer/winter time

27 days moon

On 06/05/2024 the moon was 27 days old.
Next full moon on 22 June, 2024.
Next new moon on 6 June, 2024.

Commemorations on 5 June

(according to the Greek-Orthodox calendar)

Saints of the day

  • St Dorothée, évêque de Tyr
    Δωροθέου ιερομάρτυρος επισκόπου Tύρου
  • St Marc le nouveau de Chios
    Μάρκου νεομάρτυρος του εν Χίω
  • Sts martyrs Plutarque archévêque de Chypre et Serin
    Μαρτύρων Πλουτάρχου αρχιεπισκόπου Κύπρου, και Σερίνου
  • Sts martyrs Christophe et Conon de Rome
    Μαρτύρων Χριστοφόρου και Κόνωνος Ρώμης
  • Sts dix martyrs en Egypte
    Δέκα μαρτύρων των εν Αιγύπτω
  • St Théodore, prince de Novgorod
    Θεοδώρου οσίου δουκός, του Ρώσου

Fasting Instructions: the June 5 is a fasting day with fish, wine and oil permitted (ιχθύος)

Today we celebrate these names in Greece

Un jour comme un 5 June

1969

Alexandros Panagoulis s'évade de la prison militaire de Bogiati où il était détenu pour avoir monté un attentat manqué contre le colonel Papadopoulos.

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1870

900 personnes périssent dans le grand incendie de Constantinople ; les flammes dévorent une bonne partie du quartier de Pera où habittent des nombreux Grecs.